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OSHA Injury Report: Highway Equipment Company dba New Leader Manufacturing

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Highway Equipment Company dba New Leader Manufacturing in Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was bELMACOP in fertilizing machinery, farm-type, manufacturing.

Establishment
Highway Equipment Company dba New Leader Manufacturing
Parent company
Highway Equipment Company dba New Leader Manufacturing
Street
1330 76th SW
City
Cedar Rapids
State
IA
ZIP
52404
On-site location
CHAIN SHIELDS ASSEMBLY
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

Assembling chainshields

Placed left thumb in line of fire when cutting rubber

Employee was cutting rubber using an oscillating tool and placed his thumb in the line of fire. When cutting the rubber he placed his left thumb in the line of fire when stabilizing the rubber. He was only stabilizing the tool with one hand. He lost control of the tool and cut the end of his left thumb through his glove.

oscillating tool

cut to left thumb using cutting tool

Job description
BELMACOP
SOC code
9999 — Uncoded
NAICS code
333111 — Fertilizing machinery, farm-type, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
170
Total hours worked
361086
Establishment ID
1072743
Employer case #
2401
Date of incident
Shift started
6:00
Time of incident
6:10
Filing year
2024
Submitted
13JAN2025:16:56:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2024. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.